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I was feeling blah. There is just no better way to put it. I used to be quite active, but I had gotten pretty sedentary with my new office job. I was sitting more than anything, so I attributed it to that. I decided to make myself become more active, but I had a hard time getting up the energy to do much of anything. It was not that I was tired. It just felt like I had no energy. A good friend told me I needed to see a Round Rock chiropractor, but I disagreed.

I told her that I had not hurt myself in any way, as that was the only reason I thought people went to see this kind of doctor. She told me that people go for all kinds of reasons, and accidents and injuries are just two of them. Read more

I spent the large part of a work day sitting on the floor in front of a household PBX control box. This is a telephone control unit that businesses use, but this one was in a house. I see them a lot in big homes. They handle multiple phone lines, let you use regular phones and you can call the other extensions and even answer door intercoms. This control box was mounted close to the floor. I leaned over sideways all day in a cramped space working with wires. I needed to call my chiropractor in San Francisco the next day, which happened to be my day off. I had not planned on spending my only day off this week being in pain, and I wanted to be ready to get that overtime I needed to pay for our daughter’s braces.

The chiropractor took a look at me and saw that it was mostly muscle fatigue when I explained what I had done the day before. I leaned over to the right while sitting on the floor for hours working on that phone box. Read more

I’m getting older and am having more aches and pains as time moves on. After years of being a nurse for wheelchair bound patients, it has taken a toll on my back. I have finally decided to seek the help of a San Rafael chiropractor. I did the typical internet search and found one that is relatively close to my home. They not only offer chiropractor services but also mental well-being services and wellness workshops. It all sounded good to me. Maybe they can help me eliminate some of the stress and anxiety from my life. It is most certainly worth a try.

I called to schedule an appointment and was pleasantly surprised that they offer a free chiropractic consultation for all new patients. I liked the thought of this since I had never been to a chiropractor before and wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to pursue this course of treatment for my back problems. The lady on the other end of the phone was so nice and accommodating which put me at ease. Read more

I checked into top dentists in Aurora once I decided to cut out the coffee and tea in my diet. I also gave up smoking cigarettes. Engaging in these activities was highly enjoyable over the years, but I finally gave them up due to how they made my teeth look. I used to have extremely white and attractive teeth, but after years of smoking and drinking the above mentioned beverages, they looked absolutely awful. Considering I’m only forty years old, I found this look extremely unacceptable and wanted to see what I could do to get rid of it.

I knew normal dental cleanings didn’t do anything to remove the staining. They made my teeth look a little better, but the unattractive brown coloration always remained and then would get worse very quickly. Read more

Winter is a season when a few people fall sick, catch flu, cold or cough and hence it is important for them to take care of their health and here is a list of a few winter health tips that guarantee an enjoyable winter with ahealthy body free from any illness.

First and foremost, a balanced diet assures proper health throughout the year and a person should especially ensure to take meals that are properly balanced in terms of the vital nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, fats and minerals in them. However in winter he should prefer fresh foods and seasonal food items. Vegetables and fruits can be eaten in the form of salads. Dry cereals, grains, nuts and grams can be consumed for these have very high nutrient value. To develop strength and the immunity and resistance power, foods with greater proportion of carbohydrates should be eaten.

He should drink plenty of water throughout the day to avoid dehydration. He should also include warm soups in his meals. Many people also consume alcohol to keep their body warmer to fight the cold. However, it should be taken in only lesser quantity and quite occasionally.

The benefits of exercising are many. However, in winter exercising is immensely important for a number of reasons. Exercises invigorates the body and develops the immunity system and resistance power of the body to fight with the flu, cold and cough and other illnesses that frequent during the winter. A workout at a gym or any physical activity like walking, jogging, running, cycling performed for about 45 minutes provides immense warm to the body as a lot of heat is generated as the calories burn.

He should always wear protective garments like sweaters and jackets to shield himself from the cold winds and falling temperatures.

A person can have an enjoyable winter by taking proper care of his health during this season by practicing the above winter health tips.

The common cold is one of the most common health ailments that we see each day. There can be many different signs and symptoms associated with the cold, such as coughing, headache, runny nose, body aches, fever, and fatigue. Chinese medicine has been shown to be effective for the treatment of the common cold. Chinese medical treatment for the cold can include acupuncture, herbs, and nutrition. In most cases Chinese medical treatments can resolve the cold within 1-2 days. These are three health tips according to Chinese medicine that can help you overcome the common cold.

1. The first tip is one of the easiest and cost effective. When you are experiencing a severe cough with or without sputum, some chest congestion, as well as regular cold signs such as headache and runny nose, then you can simply bake an orange. Go to you local grocery store and buy a good size orange. After you go home bake the orange in the oven at 375 degrees for half an hour. When the orange is cooked you can take it out peel it and eat it warm. The recommendation is to eat a baked orange at least three times per day. This will help warm the body and get rid of the cold. The orange is especially effective when you experience more coughing and chest congestion with your cold.

2. The second tip is effective when you have a sore throat or loss of voice. It is simply making a lemon tea. What you need to do is get a lemon and cut up some pieces put them in a pot of water. Bring the water with the lemon to a boil. Afterwards, add some honey to sweeten the lemon tea a little bit, then drink. The recommendation is to drink the lemon tea at least twice a day or as needed. The lemon tea will warm your body and improve your throat and voice.

3. The third tip is after you have tried some other things, but they are not helping the way that you would like them to. This tip is to go get some acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Acupuncture and Chinese herbs will help you get rid of your cold almost within one day. The acupuncture will balance your body to promote your body’s self-healing mechanisms, and it will help with all of the signs and symptoms of the cold. The Chinese herbs that are indicated for sore throat, headaches, runny nose are also anti-viral and anti-bacterial. They will help you feel better and get rid of the cold virus.

These three simple tips and home remedies are effective for the cold according to Chinese medicine. When you are experiencing a common cold instead of taking cold medicine with lots of side effects try these three tips first and let your body heal naturally.

If you are someone you know is going through breast cancer, you know what an emotionally and physically trying time it is. Many forms of cancer treatment only add to the discomfort that the breast cancer patient experiences. Radiation treatments, for example, can cause a great deal of fatigue and it can take up to two months for your normal levels of energy to return. Therefore, it is important to follow a few health tips in order to minimize these side effects, as well as to help you get better sooner.

One of the most important things you can do for yourself while fighting breast cancer is to get plenty of rest. Do your best to get a full nights’ sleep. And, if you feel tired during the day, take the time to sleep or rest to allow your body time to recover.

Another thing you can do is eat a healthy diet. The healthier your body is, the better prepared it will be to fight the cancer and to recover from the treatment. Be sure to include plenty of protein in your diet because the amino acids found in protein are used by your body to help repair damage.

Sometimes, eating can be a difficult task if you are undergoing treatments for breast cancer. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and medications can adversely affect your appetite and digestive system. You might experience nausea, vomiting, changes in taste and smell, difficulty swallowing and chewing, constipation, and pain. If you are experiencing these problems, you need to take steps to increase your appetite and to make eating easier.

Firstly, try to make mealtime enjoyable by eating with friends and family or making eating as comfortable as possible. To add variety for your taste buds and to make eating more enjoyable, try new foods or new recipes. If you engage in mild exercise ½ hour before you eat, it can also help increase your appetite. Of course, you should check with your doctor before starting any type of exercise routine. Anti-nausea medicine can also be helpful if you are vomiting or experiencing nausea.

It is also helpful if you prepare meals ahead of time while you are feeling better and freeze them. These meals can be easily reheated when you are not feeling well. You should also keep small snacks on hand to munch on when you are feeling good enough to eat. In fact, it is best to eat small meals or snacks frequently throughout the day than to eat large meals. All foods you purchase should be easy to prepare or should be ready to eat. You should also look for foods that are high in calories and protein in order to help keep your weight on. Even the fluids you consume should be high in calories and protein. If you are having a hard time chewing and swallowing, you should puree your foods or purchase foods that are easy to swallow, such as applesauce, soup, baby food, pudding, and yogurt.

Caring for your cat can be a full time job if you don’t know what you’re doing. Here are just a few cat health tips.

Is your feline being naughty? The first cat health tip is that if your cats’ behavior has suddenly taken a turn for the worst, then your cat may have developed a medical condition. It has been shown that cats displaying behavior problems can be suffering illness of some type. If your cat has diabetes, it will have the urge to drink more and in turn, will urinate more and sometimes in the wrong place. To the uneducated, this can be deemed as a behavioral problem but this would be wrong.

Another cat health tip is the use of spray water bottles to help in training your cat. Cats often don’t like water so when you see your cat do something wrong, pick up the spray water bottle and give them a little spray of water on the head. Don’t go mad and soak your pet, just a light spray will do the trick. In a short amount of time, your cat will associate its bad action with the spraying and stop doing it.

The last one of the cat health tips is this. Take a trip to the vet and get your feline neutered. This may seem drastic but studies have shown that cats which have been neutered do not fight as much as cats which have not been neutered. The female cat is always in heat if she is not pregnant and the tom cat is always on the look out for a new mate. When cats are in these states, the fighting goes on so a trip to the vets will stop this.

There are many more cat health tips on the website but good sensible care will always make the life of you and your cat much more pleasant.

Trying to find the best health care for your cat? There are so many medications and advice available so how do you decide what is for your cat?

Foods that give your cells what they need…protection and food. To have a healthy body you must have healthy cells. In order to have healthy cells you must protect and feed them.

Here are 10 Helpful Health Tips to improve your health and better your body. You may not agree with them all. Take what resonates with you now and start to improve your health and your body will follow into “Tip Top Shape”.

1) Fall in love with water!

Your body is a molecular structure of energy and is up to 70% water! Babies have the most water, being born at about 78%. By one year of age it drops to around 65%, adult males about 60%; however, fat tissue does not have as much water as lean tissue. In adult females, fat makes up more of the body than males, so they have about 55%. Over-weight males also have less water (percentage) than thinner males. Over-weight people have less water than thinner people (percentage). Put a label on your water bottle with a positive affirmation. Such as, LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HAPPINESS. It works wonders! Love your body to its new shape.

2) Eat NO White!

White bread, white flour, white sugar, white rice—There is NO nutritional value in any of it…NONE. Period. Find whole grain breads to eat. There are many, many choices. Bake with whole wheat pastry flour (bakes a lovely cake and makes a perfect pie crust)…yummo! For sweeteners there are many natural products to choose. For example a few are evaporated cane juice, stevia, sucanat, xylitol and agave. Eat brown rice—comes in long grain, short grain and Basmati too!

3) Find a passionate exercise!

Even if the first step is to stop using the remote and walk to the TV to change the channel. Walk somewhere. Preferably 30 minutes a day. The more you do it the more you will love it. Start small. 15 minutes then work up to 30 minutes…before you know it you will be at 2 hours! Great cardio!

4) Rest your body!

Take time out of your busy, stressful schedule every two hours to give your body at least a 5 minute break. Do not skimp on sleep. Your body knows how much it needs. Give it the rest. A healthy body (regardless of size) takes time to meditate at some time during the day. Take a meditation walk. Drinking empty calorie energy drinks to stay awake is not good for your body. Your body is wonderfully and marvelous made—all machines have to be shutdown or go into sleep mode. Give your body rest.

5) Eat vibrant colorful foods!

Fruits and vegetables are loaded with antioxidants. Your cells are constantly bombarded with Free Radicals (Free Radicals come from living [breathing], smoking, toxins, pollution, and many other sources). When they attack the cells of your body they eventually cause damage to the cell. If you are not eating foods that can fight and repair the cell damage you are headed for the danger zone…you rust up, dry up, swell up, then turn to stone. Free Radical damage will cause one of two things happen,

Number one, the cell dies.

Number two, the cell mutates and then begins to duplicate in its mutated form. This is the cause of every major disease that we know of.

Antioxidants are the only thing that can protect you against Free Radicals. The more antioxidants that you have in your body (regardless of size) the more protection that you will have in your body. Over-weight people need more antioxidants because of the stress being put on the heart, lungs, joints and bones. Antioxidants can prevent and even reverse Free Radical damage.

6) If you are a tobacco smoker now is the time to STOP!

There is no way to be healthy and smoke. I stopped. Twice. One cigarette kills trillions of cells in your body. Heart attacks are responsible for more early deaths among smokers due to coronary artery disease that cancer.

7) Laugh! Sing! Dance!

A healthy body is in a good emotional state. Enjoy life. No matter your size. When you laugh the whole world laughs with you. Enjoy what you do in life. If you do not, do something else. NOW. Find something that resonates with you. Something that you love. Have passion about it. Have fun within your life. Laugh, sing and dance and the weight will melt away…especially dancing.

8) Overweight bodies are toxic!

Period. If you are overweight…you know if your are…this is very important. Lose the weight! Your health matters. Your heart cares. Do not go on a fade diet. Start eating healthy. Start reading the ingredients on labels. Know what you are eating. Calories are important, and empty ones do not count. Desire a late night snack…eat an apple. Have a mid-day crave…eat another apple. Grapes are good too. Eat to live, not live to eat. Also, read #1, 2 and 3 again.

9) Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food!

Your allergies will clear up. Your migraines will disappear. Your body will begin to take on a new shape. If you begin to think it…it will be. If you continue thinking about how sick you are…it will be. How over-weight you are…you will be over-weight. Allow your body to heal itself. Take 3 deep breaths and go within…at anytime you need to center yourself. This helps as your body is taking on its natural new beautiful shape. You were born a beautiful baby. You are beautiful now. Believe it. Know it. Your body is a system of wellness. Your body will tell you what it needs. Be still and listen.

10) Listen to your body!

Ask yourself what is it that you need to pay attention to? What are you constantly eating that is toxic to your body? Is it a diet too high in LDL foods? Is it a toxic diet of fatty foods, sodas, foods with a lot of artificial this and artificial that? Your body was not designed to digest “ARTIFICIAL”. Are you constantly having colds? Are you eating any fruits and vegetables? If not, you are not giving your body antioxidants or fiber to be healthy…to have healthy organs…especially a healthy heart. Try the 4 New Food Groups:

Fruit:

3 or more servings a day. Fruits are rich in fiber, vitamin C, and beta-carotene.

Legumes:

2 or more servings a day. Legumes, which is another name for beans, peas, and lentils, are all good sources of fiber, protein, iron, calcium, zinc and B vitamins.

Whole Grains:

5 or more servings a day. This group includes bread, rice, pasta, hot or cold cereal, corn, millet, barley, bulgur, buckwheat groats, and tortillas.

Allow your body to take on its natural weight and it will be a beautiful shape. These are only tips. Not demands or guidelines. Take what you can now, chew on it, digest it, it may save your life or you may life longer, better and get a great new body. And for that you may be grateful, or not. These 10 Healthful Tips will get any body into Tip Top Shape for life.

Colon health tips can save your life. There are different colon cleansing programs that you can find on the Internet as well as different products, some more effective than others. But then again, the effectiveness of a given cleansing product or program depends on the individual as it may work for you but that doesn’t mean it will work for me.

The best colon health tip you can get for free is to follow a colon cleansing diet to clear up your colon. We are living in a toxic world, but that’s because we have made it that way with our constant pollution of the environment. Point is that at some stage in life, those toxins reach a level so high that can be dangerous for you health. Unless you eliminate them, those toxins will continue to increase and build up on. A colon diet will kill the harmful bacterias slowly helping you restore your health and vitality. Those diets usually focus on high intake of fibers. A person needs around 30 grams of fiber per day. To achieve this amount, eat more vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

Processed and cooked foods are not recommended, as the amount of quality ingredients is decreased to minimum (especially in processed foods) while the toxins are high. Therefore, try to eat as much raw food as you can. Cooked foods require more time for the body to digest them. Make your own fruit juice instead of buying it at the store and make sure you add the pulp. Reason why is that fiber helps people with colon troubles is that the fiber adds mass to the stool and absorbs water to soften the stool.

Here are some other useful tips. The main thing is to drink a lot of water. Whenever you feel tired, drink a glass or water. You should be drinking about 4 liters of water every day. Tip number two is to take Ester-C supplement every day in the morning. Vitamin C has a positive effect on the immune system. Eat broths, and stews, because they provide electrolytes, which will energize you. Make detox baths. Try do avoid over-exercising. And remember, never do anything stressful, or frustrating when you’re cleansing. Don’t over-eat as you body already has a problem digesting food so don’t make it even harder for yourself.

A lemon detox diet can do wonders for your health condition. The main goal of a lemon diet is a detox through a colon cleanse. As with any detox diet, releasing toxins in the body is serious business and should not be taken lightly. Add a colon cleanse to your lemon diet, because a lot of toxins will be released by your body during this phase.